LSU seeks sweet ending at Arkansas

12:08 AM,
Nov. 23, 2012

LSU head coach Les Miles sing the school anthem with his team after their NCAA college football game against Mississippi in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. LSU won 41-35. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Glenn Guilbeau
Gannett Louisiana

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -LSU has not played here in 20 years, but it has been here before.

The last two times the Tigers ended their regular season at Arkansas (though the last nine have been southeast of here in Little Rock), they have been in a similar situation - trying to finish off positively a season of what might have been.

In 2010, the Tigers came in with just one loss to eventual national champion Auburn but with little chance of reaching the SEC title game. And they fell to the Hogs 31-23 before ending up at the Cotton Bowl. ...